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Open a window onto the Gnostic controversy facing the church in the second century with one of the only surviving sources on the subject. This, the most important work of St. Irenaeus, examines and refutes the Gnostic teachings, providing a valuable description of Gnosticism as well as an important Christian theological work. Bishop of Lyon and a disciple of Polycarp, Irenaeus wrote Against...

unto God. And to this end the Creation is all laid out upon man: for not man for it, but the creature is made for Man. But as to the nations which did not so much as lift up their eyes unto Heaven, nor give thanks to their Maker, nor would see the light of Truth, but are as blind mice hidden in the deep of Folly: justly hath the Word accounted them as a drop from the cask,* and as the make-weight of the balance and as nothing;* to be so far useful and meet for the righteous, as the stubble is of
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